Pencilnoob
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- Comment on Is it better to: [A] watch videos content on a flagship/midrange smartphone that you already have, OR [B] get a cheap tablet (say, around $200 USD) to watch videos? 5 days ago:
I second this, a monitor is useful in so many more ways! It turns your phone into a whole computer. If you use Android, you can install a terminal and be able to do all kinds of cool stuff on it.
I put a computer monitor with an HDMI to usb C adapter in my kitchen so I can plug in my phone and put on MST3K while cooking.
It’s also useful because you can use it as an external monitor for another computer.
- Comment on Unsolicited. 6 days ago:
this is amazing
- Comment on AI is not bad for the environment in comparison with many other regular activities. 1 week ago:
I would be curious to compare that to Google search. Some experts estimate Google search and the time spent reviewing the results on your device can be 3-10g of Co2. The Google part alone is maybe .2g per search.
www.fastcompany.com/…/internet_impact_visualized
Here they estimated in 2018 that just rendering front page cost 300 tons a minute, so 432,000 tons a day. Just for the front page.
Just to put it in perspective that the Internet itself is not free. It’s expensive to power sending all this data around!
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 weeks ago:
If it’s small you might try printing the files on archival paper with archival ink. Then you can put copies in multiple safe deposit boxes. Also you could bury copies rolled up in plastic water bottles. I think those are unlikely to degrade anytime soon. Or glass bottles with plastic lids.
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 5 weeks ago:
We didn’t use Pringles, I think it was these big peaches cans
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 5 weeks ago:
I once made one of these with a bigger can and mounted it on an old 10’ satellite dish. Managed to get Wi-Fi across several thousand yards without issue
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 1 month ago:
I disagree, other than a few notable counter examples most times folks are only successful when they build reliable business relationships. Most relationships will dissolve if one party is playing games.
On average it’s more effective to follow “The No Assholes Rule”. There’s plenty of studies (referenced in the book Good To Great) that indicate that humble business leaders produce build more stable and long term profitable companies.
Lying manipulators can sometimes get ahead but just as often they get found out and blackballed.
I think it might be like a game theory type situation where if everyone is honest, then the first liar might get ahead a lot (although I suspect in that situation they’d immediately be shunned by all honest folk if found out). If everyone is a liar then honest folk have nothing to hide and probably will just be really defensive in their dealings.
- Comment on Hat. 2 months ago:
I’m playing through Another Crabs Treasure and this post gives me flashbacks
- Comment on Month-long awareness celebrations 2 months ago:
In Costa Rica elections are a whole thing, like everyone’s out with flags on cars and megaphones yelling about one of the 20+ political parties.
Also Semana Santa is a week long Catholic holiday.
- Comment on The history of societal collapses are all just examples of Universe 25 2 months ago:
Despite all my rage, I’m still just a rat in a cage
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 months ago:
A wedding can cost almost nothing. I found a very small local poor church and offered them $100 bucks to use the place on a Saturday. I baked a big cake, decorated it plain white. I overnight smoked a brisket, made a pan of Mac and cheese.
Got a friend to officiate, and told our friends and families a month in advance. We told everyone it was a potluck. We got $100 plain rings. My grandmother ended up buying some cool flowers for decorations. A friend played some music on the church speakers.
All in, it probably cost us $400 out of pocket, and we got enough cash from attendees to cover that and pay for us to take off work for the week to just hang out and move in together, staycation style. To be fair, I don’t think either of us would have wanted a vacation style honeymoon, we did that kind of thing later. That first week was a lot of figuring out how to live together, so that took time.
So it’s possible to have a big party with friends and family, but spend very little. Just have everyone bring some food and it’ll work out.
Studies show that folks are less likely to have a happy long term marriage the more they spend on a wedding. It’s a pretty clear correlation that expensive weddings typically make folks more unhappy and starts the relationship off with more financial stress. So, don’t feel bad about being frugal! As long as you are both happy, it can be very inexpensive.
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 4 months ago:
I mute a ton of communities, and I really like quickly getting to the “end” of All. Then I’ve blocked some other dopamine sites, so I get bored and go play outside 🤣
- Comment on What are your Top 10 anime? 4 months ago:
❤️
Indeed, I don’t need to stand out by having more unique tastes, I like what I like
- Comment on What are your Top 10 anime? 4 months ago:
MOST BASIC LIST EVER
- Trigun
- Spirited Away
- Dandandan
- Solo Leveling
- Cowboy Bebop
- Nausica and the Valley of the Wind
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
- Trigun Stampede
- Bloom into You
- Comment on The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? 5 months ago:
KATAMARI DAMACYYYYYY BUM BUM BUM BUM
- Comment on One Piece will survive next generation too. 5 months ago:
Position 1,1 with the hand mouth is Jujutsu Kaisen
- Comment on a challenge appears 5 months ago:
They are both my creepy weakness and my allies who eat worse things
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 6 months ago:
Memes that lie?! On the internet?! Someone call the Internet police
- Comment on We have all done it 6 months ago:
I always find that last fellow intentionally hilarious. Just avoiding the gaze then he’s just got a full on blindfold
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 9 months ago:
Here’s an online calculator
- Comment on AI Slop 10 months ago:
A Calvin and Hobbes AI meme, truly we live in times
